Wellington Webb[1], Denver’s first black mayor, ripped U.S. House Republican Speaker John Boehner[2] at the Colorado Democrats’ annual fundraiser over the weekend, saying “he has destroyed the myth of white supremacy.”

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[media-credit name=”Pete Marovich/Bloomberg” align=”alignright” width=”270″][/media-credit] House Speaker John Boehnerspeaks to the media outside the West Wing of the White House last week.

Former Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff[4] also took a shot at Boehner during the event, with his faux Academy Awards presentation where he handed out “Boehners.”

“Colorado Democrats continue to embarrass our state,” said former Colorado Speaker Frank McNulty[7], of Highlands Ranch. “Mayor Webb should use his position to bring our state together instead of hurling racially charged comments at the U.S. speaker.”

“Colorado Republicans continue to embarrass our state,” Palacio said. “Coloradans were so embarrassed by Republicans that they sent them a message in 2012 and got rid of Frank McNulty as speaker and sent him to the minority, where he lobs his baseless attacks on the party in charge.”

But Joshua Sharf, a Denver Republican, blogger and former legislative candidate, also was taken aback by Webb’s comment.

“Politics is full of sharp elbows, to be sure,” he said. “But given the Democrats’ history on race, Webb’s throwing stones from glass houses. Their coalition and policies are always explicitly race-conscious: first for Southern whites, now minorities.

“Republicans want everyone to succeed regardless of race.”

A Google search shows Webb repeated a line used before. Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., used the myth of white supremacy phrase in reference to President George W. Bush when asked about the economy in 2008.

Webb’s remarks came after he praised Colorado’s two Democratic U.S. senators, Michael Bennet and Mark Udall, and mentioned a fight with the Supreme Court.

“But Mark, it’s getting easier because they have John Boehner and John Boehner’s proved once and for all, he has destroyed the myth of white supremacy. Because he ain’t that smart,” Webb said, to laughter and applause.

As for Romanoff, who now is running for Congress[12], over the years he has delighted Democrats at the JJ Dinner with his play on the Academy Awards. When McNulty heard what Romanoff said, he burst out laughing.

“Andrew Romanoff has a great sense of humor,” he said.

Romanoff presented awards from “The Republican Academy for the Censorship and Denial of Science,” honoring the “most tearjerking award in a major melodrama, the awards known as the ‘Boehners.'” Because of cutbacks due to sequestrian, he said the academy had reduced the number of awards to one category, to a Republican in a “misleading role.”